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- From: usenet@b8.b8.ingr.com (Usenet Account)
- Subject: re Paul Bunyan
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.173325.5751@b8.b8.ingr.com>
- Sender: anthony@panzer.b17b.ingr.com (Anthony Shipman)
- Organization: Intergraph
- References: <Bxt0z9.13F@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <92321.143945JAL137@psuvm.psu.edu> <Bxtz1s.D67@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <BxuErq.I1F@ns1.nodak.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:33:25 GMT
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- |>
- |> I was quite shocked to learn that Paul, his grease-skating chefs, his
- |> mighty axe (and, lest we forget, Babe, the Blue Ox!), were all a PR/ad
- |> bit invented by a logging chain in the early part of the century.
- |>
- |> Of course, few people realize that the Pledge of Alliegance itself
- |> was written as an ad spiel by a flag company to get sales moving on Flag
- |> Day.
- |>
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- OH MY GOD! Is this TRUE!?
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- I pleadge allegiance to the flag of capitalism and good marketing relations...
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- No wonder George Bush wanted to make kids say the Pledge of Allegiance in school.
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